Ajanta painting

Aurangabad

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February 16th 2011
Booking a train in India is a rather interesting experience. If you book far enough ahead (weeks), you have a confirmed ticket – if not you are on the waitlist and as other passengers cancel, your wait number gets smaller. Often you don’t know if you actually have a confirmed seat until you arrive at the rain station and see your name on the seating plan. On this train, seats were numbered 1 ... read more

Asia » India

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more